The Labyrinth of the Spirits ★★★★½
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Genre(s) | Historical Fiction, Mystery, Spain
Goodreads Rating | 4.45
Humpo Show Rating | 4.50
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: First published in Spanish in 2016, my English language edition is the limited proof copy sent to me upon request from Orion (translated by Lucia Graves)
Publishing 18 September 2018
The fourth instalment, fierce and enormous, spiced with perfumes from all the earlier ones, would lead us at last to the centre of the mystery, uncovering all the puzzles with the help of my favourite fallen angel of mist, Alicia Gris. The saga would contain villains and heroes, and a thousand tunnels through which the reader would be able to explore a kaleidoscopic plot resembling that mirage of perspectives I’d discovered with my father in the heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Not my words, but the words of two Julians: Sempere and Carax. Continue reading
